My second season of Caterham Racing in the 2018 Roadsport Championship. Including the build of my first Caterham the awesome R500 Duratec, and the Academy Car in 2017.

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

The Final Collection? and First Update - Already!

Ian from Caterham arrived around midday on Monday to collect the car, after he'd dropped off 'someone' else's kit! Hopefully this will be the final collection for my issue, as I'd really like to have the car back and be leak free once and for all!

The Caterham collection van - my R500's second home!

Simon Lambert has come back to me today to say that Mick Atree and James have been working on my car already and their eagle eyes have been hard at work - which is very reassuring to hear.

They found an obvious issue straight away... Apparently the seal that CC Midlands had sourced was not an OE Ford part, now this would be normal for them to do with a service item as it's something they don't hold stock of and would naturally have been given the assurance by their supplier that it was the right part to use... and now comes the big however... Once the removed seal was compared with the genuine Ford part it proved quite different.

So the seal has been changed to a genuine Ford seal, the prop shaft has been balanced and according to Simon the static running is also proving positive too! Happy days... I would sign off there, but...

...Mick and James have noticed the diff is leaking! So that's their next job... Now I can sign off! Will post with more updates as and when I get them...

5 comments:

Hi Daniel - I think you really should be asking about and, if necessary, pushing for the diff bracing whilst the car is with CC. The vertical strut bars that brace the diff to the crossrail that the upper seat belt fixings are mounted to just have to make a lot of sense... I struggle to belive that your R500 doesn't have them in the first place.